wet cell

noun

Electricity.

1. a cell whose electrolyte is in liquid form and free to flow.

wet cell

noun

1. a primary cell in which the electrolyte is a liquid Compare dry cell

wet cell

1. An electric cell in which the chemicals producing the current are in the form of a liquid rather than in the form of a paste (as in a dry cell). Car batteries consist of a series of wet cells.

2. Compare dry cell

Example Sentences

“One feels smarter and more pulled together after reading them. You drop into one as if you were a wet cell phone and it were a jar of uncooked rice.”

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You drop into one as if you were a wet cell phone and it were a jar of uncooked rice.

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Bowman begins with “a wet cell paste,” to which he adds texturizers, “some of the same things that they use to make McDonald’s nuggets.”

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Allman said investigators are looking at whether a wet cell phone found alongside the road belonged to the family.

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“There is no loss of capability if the battery is left unused, unlike more normal dry and wet cell types, which decay more or less as soon as they are charged,” he said.

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